Empire Rose Stakes

Flit Could Bypass Eagle For Interstate Group 1

Posted on October 10, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The $7.5 million Golden Eagle is just one of the targets being considered for Godolphin mare Flit after her return to the winner's circle at Randwick.

Posted on July 5, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

The first Group One race of the 2020-21 Australian racing season is in trainer John Thompson’s sights with stable stalwart Dreamforce. Dreamforce broke through for a deserved Group One win during the Sydney autumn carnival in the George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill in March before failing in his final start of the campaign in[...]

Posted on November 2, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

New Zealand’s star mare Melody Belle has added a Group One win in Australia with a dominant performance in the Empire Rose Stakes at a rain-soaked Flemington. Already a winner of nine Group One races in New Zealand including six this year, Melody Belle was racing in Australia for the first time since March last[...]

Posted on November 1, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Grahame Begg believes Miss Siska is peaking at the right time for the Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington and is convinced the mare is well over the odds for the Group One race. A half-sister to multiple Group One-winning sprinter Hay List, Miss Siska went close to winning the Queen of the Turf (1600m)[...]

Posted on November 1, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

EMPIRE ROSE STAKES The $1 million Empire Rose Stakes is a Group One weight-for-age race run over 1600m for fillies and mares at Melbourne’s Flemington racecourse It will run as race five at 2.20pm AEDT on Saturday, November 2 HISTORY First run as a Listed race in 1988 and won by the Colin Hayes-trained Concordance[...]

Posted on October 31, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer David Brideoake will not worry about what conditions are thrown at Princess Jenni as she attempts to close out her spring campaign with a Group One win. Princess Jenni is one of the leading fancies for the Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington on Saturday with Brideoake saying the mare has had the perfect lead-up[...]

Posted on October 31, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Wendy Roche has been forced to rely on the kindness of a fellow trainer to get Nettoyer to Melbourne for a Group One race on Derby day after her horse float was sabotaged. Roche, who is based at Warwick Farm, initially thought mischievous vandals had slashed five of her tyres but quickly learned the damage[...]

Posted on October 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

A year after winning the VRC Oaks at Flemington, four-year-old Aristia is set for another of the Group One features during the Melbourne Cup carnival. Trained at the course by Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra, Aristia runs in Saturday’s Group One Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) when she will be striving to register her first win[...]

Posted on October 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys may not have had too many opportunities at the highest level but saddles two chances in a bid for an elusive Group One victory. Keys has been training for more than 30 years and from 40 starters in Group One races the closest he has come was in the 2014 Caulfield Guineas[...]

Posted on October 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Star New Zealand mare Melody Belle has drawn a wide barrier in a capacity field for the Group One Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington. A nine-time Group One winner in New Zealand including three this spring, the Jamie Richards-trained Melody Belle has drawn barrier 13 in the field of 16 for Saturday’s 1600m weight-for-age race[...]

Posted on October 29, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Godolphin trainer James Cummings admits he is “terrified” of Melody Belle as he prepares two mares to clash with the star New Zealander in the Group One Empire Rose Stakes. The Jamie Richards-trained Melody Belle is New Zealand’s reigning Horse of the Year and has won three Group One races this season to take her[...]

Posted on October 27, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Cox Plate placegetter Te Akau Shark will return home to New Zealand for a spell with trainer Jamie Richards to switch his attention to stablemate Melody Belle. The mare runs on Saturday at Flemington where she will try to add the Group One Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) to her three elite level wins at home[...]

Posted on October 16, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Ken Keys has adopted a different spring campaign with Spanish Reef who returned to winning form in the Ladies’ Day Vase at Caulfield. In the past two years Keys has tried winning his hometown Cranbourne Cup with the mare, but this campaign he has altered his sights to the Group One Empire Rose Stakes[...]

Posted on October 5, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Baccarat Baby booked a ticket to Melbourne for the spring carnival after her first-up win in the Gallopers Sports Club Handicap at Eagle Farm. Trainer David Vandyke said the $1 million Group One Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) for fillies and mares at Flemington on Derby Day will be her ultimate aim. “She was on trial[...]

Posted on September 30, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Perth mare Angelic Ruler has some unfinished business in Melbourne which her co-trainer Daniel Pearce hopes will come at Flemington. Angelic Ruler is on her second trip to Melbourne and is yet to win in four starts, but has finished among the placegetters each time in stakes races. Pearce, who trains in partnership with his[...]

Posted on September 27, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Exciting filly Loving Gaby has made an impressive spring return at The Valley, beating a quality field in the Group Three Scarborough Stakes. After a busy first preparation during the autumn in which she contested four of the five Australian Group One races for two-year-olds, Loving Gaby had taken time to come to hand before[...]

Posted on July 28, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Oaks winning filly Princess Jenni has thrived during her winter spell in the sun in Queensland and has began shedding the kilograms in the prelude to her spring campaign. Trainer David Brideoake said the Group One-winning filly returned to his stable at Mornington last week in magnificent order. Princess Jenni won the Australasian Oaks at[...]

Flit Could Bypass Eagle For Interstate Group 1

Winx Stakes First-Up Target For Dreamforce

Melody Belle Wins Group One Empire Rose

Miss Siska Peaking At Right Time For Group 1

A Guide To The $1m Group One Empire Rose

Princess Jenni Set To Shine In Empire Rose

Horse Float Vandalised, Tyres Slashed

Aristia Aims For Another Flemington Group 1 Win

Keys With Two Group 1 Contenders On Derby Day

Wide Draw For Melody Belle In Empire Rose

Cummings Fears Melody Belle In Empire Rose

Melody Belle For Group 1, Shark Goes Home

Spanish Reef Returns To Form At Caulfield

Baccarat Baby Earns Group 1 Melbourne Campaign

Angelic Ruler Chases First Melbourne Win

Loving Gaby Makes Winning Return At Valley

Spring Build-Up Begins For Princess Jenni

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